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Top 5 Tuesday - favorite Provo products

Aug 24th 2010

Whilst in Provo Tuesday wrapping up some interviews for our Nov/Dec cover story (that's all the hints you get), I happened by the cleverly coined BYU Student Athlete Building (they don't leave much to the imagination) to pay homage to my five fave BYU products.

In ascending order of importance:

5) Ty Detmer and his Heisman. Peeps forget how dominant Detmer was his Jr. year (1990) at BYU, putting up video game numbers (passing for 5,188 yards and 41 touchdowns in 12 regular season games, finishing the year with 42 NCAA records - and tied for five others - many of which he still holds. That year BYU's upset no. 1 Miami 28-21; Detmer passed for 406 yards and 3 touchdowns). In '90-'91 my interest in football first started to pique and Detmer was a big part of that. Here's the Miami game: